EVENT Houston Indie Book Festival

HW Staff

Mar 24|09:36

Published on 24 March 2012

Celebrate the fifth annual Houston Indie Book Festival along with dozens of nationally-distributed literary journals, local booksellers, publishers, small presses, literary organizations and writers at the Menil Park on Saturday, April 14 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Co-sponsoredby NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast, the festival showcases the efforts of writers, artists, teachers, community members and cultural groups working to make the arts and humanities a vibrant part of the Houston community.

The 2012 festival offers a new “Children’s Area” with day-long programming, including facepainting, guided poetry workshops for children, a Book Binding Workshop with the Houston BookArts Guild and readings by Ana Maria Rodriguez and Andrea White.

At 1:30 p.m., local indie authors and publishers will give a panel discussion that focuses on how to submit manuscripts to small presses and the art of self-publishing. A second panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. presents editors from local literary journals who will guide the audience through the submission process and talk about expectations from literary editors.

Poet and nonfiction writer Laurie Clemberts Lambeth will give a reading, as well as fiction writers Justin Sirois and Andrew Porter. For times and a full schedule, please visit HIBF online atindiebookfest.org.

This year’s festival is set to correspond with the Menil Collection’s Open House event. Alongsidethe book fair, visitors can enjoy outdoor art exhibits, tours of the Menil campus, art demonstrations, live music, food trucks and much more!

This event is free, and everyone in the community is invited to participate in what has becomeHouston’s largest and only event of its kind. Since 2008, the Houston Indie Book Festival has steadily expanded from a small gathering of local bookstores and artists to a full-scale regional event.

More information about the Houston Indie Book Festival is available online atwww.indiebookfest.org.

The Houston Indie Book Festival is supported by the Houston Arts Alliance, The HoustonEndowment, Inc., Inprint, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Texas Commission on theArts and the University of Houston’s Department of English.